Travel to Northern California’s Redwood National and State Parks in this 4K video by The Pattiz Brothers for their More Than Just Parks project: MTJP | Redwood. MTJP’s mission is to help foster greater awareness and appreciation of the United States’ fifty-nine national parks through beautifully made short films. Wikipedia on Sequoia sempervirens, ambassadors from another time:
This native area provides a unique environment with heavy seasonal rains up to 100 inches (2,500 mm) annually. Cool coastal air and fog drip keep this forest consistently damp year round. Several factors, including the heavy rainfall, create a soil with fewer nutrients than the trees need, causing them to depend heavily on the entire biotic community of the forest, especially complete recycling of the trees when dead. This forest community includes coast Douglas fir, Pacific madrone, tanoak, western hemlock, and other trees, along with a wide variety of ferns, mosses, mushrooms, and redwood sorrel. Redwood forests provide habitat for a variety of amphibians, bird, mammals, and reptiles. Old-growth redwood stands provide habitat for the federally threatened spotted owl and the California-endangered marbled murrelet.
The thick, tannin-rich bark, combined with foliage starting high above the ground, provides good protection from both fire and insect damage, contributing to the coast redwood’s longevity. The oldest known specimen is about 2,200 years old; many others in the wild exceed 600 years.
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